Positive asbestos test results shut down two Illinois schools

Two more of the nations schools have closed their doors after test results have come back showing positive results for asbestos air contamination.

School officials have closed a junior-senior high school and elementary school in Heyworth, Illinois for two days as a result of the positive asbestos test.

School superintendent Randy Merker told the media that the test was ordered after the custodial crew found a small piece of hard plaster that they thought might have been contaminated with asbestos.

“They were cleaning the walls and it was generating a lot of dust,” Merker told a local newspaper. “After finding the plaster they became concerned.”

While students were on summer break, DEM Services of Bellwood, Illinois, launched a full-scale asbestos abatement project and must now return to clean the junior high wing where the plaster was found. .

The American Cancer Society has issued numerous reports about asbestos exposure as a leading risk factor in the development of malignant mesothelioma, a rare cancer of the tissue surrounding most of the body’s internal organs.

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